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Date: | Friday 16 May 1941 |
Time: | 01:40 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
Owner/operator: | 103 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R1494 |
MSN: | PM-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Oude Pekela, Groningen prv -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Newton |
Destination airport: | RAF Newton |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:45 LT for an operation to Hannover, Germany. Heard on w/t advising that the port engine had failed, after which the Wellington crashed at Oude Pekela (Groningen), 9 km E of Veendam at 01:40.
The aircraft had been hit by the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 236 batteries Emden and Delfzijl between 01:15 and 01:20.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Raymond Gordon Eccles RNZAF NZ/40759 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Gordon Maclean RAFVR 976194 [Killed]
Sergeant Edwin Currie Easton RAF 1259167 [PoW]
Sergeant Sydney Eric Thomas Hamblin RAF 543883 [PoW]
Pilot Officer Harry John Sellers RAF 60074 (NCO:922855 : Commission Gazetted Friday 14 February, 1941) [PoW]
Pilot Officer Archibald William Sulston RAF 85022 (NCO:749415 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 08 October, 1940) [PoW]
The 2 airmen who died are buried in the Essserveld General Cemetery:
P/O Sulston resigned his commission, Gazette of 21st January 1958, then a F/O.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1034&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 58.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Apr-2016 18:51 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Oct-2017 07:28 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
14-May-2019 18:54 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jun-2022 08:25 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
14-Jun-2022 08:50 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
01-May-2024 14:55 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |